X startup (xdm) error

2000-07-21 Thread paul almquist
hi redhatters -- I was playing with lizardx from caldera on my redhat system and it messed up some X things. Fixed one problem (it created an XF86config in /etc which X found before the real one in /etc/X11). X runs ok if I boot to runlevel 3 and use startx. Booting to run level 5 I get the er

Re: Good Laptop for Linux

2000-05-09 Thread paul almquist
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 09:45:12AM -0600, Erik de Groot wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking of buying an older laptop to install Linux on. Around 120Mhz > > or 150Mhz should be good. Does anyone have any suggestions on which would > > be best or maybe horror stories of a particular make that I sho

ORB drives

2000-05-09 Thread paul almquist
Hi all Does anyone have any experience using Orb removable drives with linux? They have both SCSI and EIDE verisons. The capacity is about 2 GB. They are made by Castlewood Systems, Inc. Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media. I am thinking about using them in s

cant find module st

2000-04-03 Thread paul almquist
Hi I have a scsi based system that displays the following at boot time: ... Enabling swap space Cant find module st Entering run level 5 ... Using RHL 6.0 Hardware: Adaptec 2940uw scsi card 2 - scsi 2GB disks 1 - scsi